Razor.



W. E.- SMITH.

' RAZOR.

1 APPLICATION FILED IEB.21, 1910.

! 997,71 1. Patented July 11,1911.

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' prising an angular tubular socket 15 In the accompanying drawings :Figure l is a side elevatlon ot-my razor arranged as a safety razor, a portion of the handle being broken away. F 1g. 2 is an enlargedend view of the same. ,Fig. 8 is a side elevation of the guard. Fig. 4 is a similar View of the blade. ig. 5 is an end view of my razor arranged for use as an ordinary razor or for stropping. Fig. 6 is a side elevation, of the same, on the same scale as Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a side elevation. of my Fig. 8 is a bottom view of the same. Fig. 9 is a side elevation of the blank for the same.

A is the blade holder of my razor comadapted to receive theblade B and parts enacting therewith to be described and a shank 16 by which it is pivotally mounted to the handle C comprising the usual handle scales 1?. The saidangular tubular socket comprises a flattened back wall 18, rounded corners along each edge with a pair of forwardly extending 'ffclamping wings 19, the said socket 15 being symmetrical and reversible in its means for receiving and retaining the said blade and coacting parts.

-The said blade B is made of sheet metal,

generally rectangular and is provided at the corners at the back edge at each elid with a no'tbh 20, which fit over corresponding lugs r 2lfion" thej lade face of the guard D. The

said grand D is a generally rectangular plate like structure having a plane outer surface, is of dimensions corresponding cssentially to those of the blade and has the (usual comb formation 22 along the front edge, so that when the blade is received on the said blade face, with the said notches 2O engaged with the said lugs 21, the said comb or guard proper 22 will extend adjacent to and along the edge 23 of the said blade.

The guard and blade constitutev a unit, essentially rectangular and having guide lugs on the rear edge corresponding to the omitting the said'guard joined by are receivable in and a tit for the-said tubular socket 150i the holder A. The said blade l3 and guard D are symmetrical in formation individually and also when combined as a unit, and are accordingly receivable by either end in the said socket -15 of the holder A so that the same are adapted hand or right hand use. In order to permit ordinary razor or for stropping, I replace the said guard by a spring member E which of the holder in receiving and clamping the blade B, which member comprises a ribbed holder formed preferably of a strip otsheet metal doubled upon'itself at the middle of the lengthso as to form a loop 24 which may serve conveniently as a handle and has two similar longitudinally extending arms 25, generally rectangularand adapted to rethe said arms having the adjacent upper or back edge on ea'ch'side turned-outwardly to form a pair of flat longitudinal ribs 26, which ribs lit the said tubular back or socket 15 when the blade B is received between the twoarms 25. As described each of the said arms 25 comprises essentially an angle piece and the two are combined for convenience ceive-the blade by either end and together with the blade as a unit may be received in the said socket 15 of the holder A. The handle 24- serves convenient 1y as a means for inserying and removin g -the blade. Structural y, thesaid spring member E may be made from angulars tock, the rib portion 26 ,adjacent the handle 24.- being cut away to facilitate bending into the form described, ,or the same may be made up from a blank lar, having notches on the sides at the center 6f the length, at the point of the bend to form the handle 24:.

I claim as my invention In a razor, a blade, aholder and a guard plate, the said holder having a tubular socket and lateral clamping wings, the said guard plate provided surface generally rectangular and having lugs at the corners at the back edge of the said surface, the said lugs a fit for the said tubular back, the said blade being of sheet metal, receivable on the said surface, and

to be readily changed about for either left -D as for use as an isadapted to'coact with the said socket 15,

ceive the upper or back part of the blade,

by the handle 24 and theyare adapted to re-- such as shown in Fig. 9, generally rectangu-- with a lilade-recet ving thickness of the said lu s 21, and as a unit provided With notches a fit for the said lugs, such position when the said guard plate and the said llugs andgiotclhes SGIViIlgftO prevendt lugs are received in the said tubular back.

relative ateral .is acenient o the sai 1 guard plate and b1ad e in all directions when WILLIAIVI SMITH 5 the said blade is in posit on on the said Witnesses:

blade-receiving surface, and the said clamp- NEWTON L. LOCKWOOD,

ing wings serving to hold the saidblade in SHEFFIELD I-I. CLARK 

